Randy Pausch is a professor at CMU and whose work is and life is going to a legacy few will be able to achieve. This is in the pseudo past tense because he has also been diagnoses with terminal cancer. His last lecture was entitled ‘Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams’ and if it wasn’t for the context it was being delivered it would have been the best keynote speech I have ever seen (in person, or online).

It is of course, not directly related to testing, but I’ll stretch a definition to the breaking point and say that it is about Quality of life and how to live it to its most. I had done my usual trick of taking notes of the interesting things that might be worth referencing back to, but I’ve decided not to post them. Instead, I’m going to use my 2007 ‘watch this’ card; If you only watch one video I link to in calendar year 2007, this is the one. Be warned though, if you have kids, a spouse, a mentor(s), a mentee(s), there are parts that will rip you apart. But in the end, it is worth it.



(You would think that they would have the screen freeze to a picture of Randy — seems like a bug)

Direct link here and there are standalone version floating around too if you look.